Williams Gateway Expo shearing competition held on Saturday produced some quality performances which resulted in an exciting open championship won by Broomehill shearer Damien Boyle.
Bob Garnant
A shortage of WA shearing teams has sparked a bidding war among farmers, with some contactors now slugging graziers up to $9.50 per sheep.
EXCLUSIVE Cally Dupe
Competitive shearing made a comeback at the Wagin Woolorama, the first event of the year signalling a restart to the normal show schedule after the COVID shutdown last year.
A Great Southern farming family is working hard to produce a “sustainable” non-mulesed woolclip by paying close attention to their genetic selection and marketing options.
Chris Wilcox will be surely missed as one of the world’s leading analyst and commentators on the global wool industry.
Australian Wool Innovation chairwoman Colette Garnsey plans to retire from the board of Australia’s peak wool producers’ body, leaving a potential seat for an incoming new director.
A new virtual campaign to promote wool will be launched on March 18 with three experts backing the Trust in Australian Wool theme.
Wool prices are expected to increase in 2021 as COVID restrictions ease, resulting in improved global demand for woollen garments.
Four of the Australian wool industry’s brightest stars will headline an online Zoom forum this Friday as part of an early International Women’s Day celebration.
The 2021 WoolPoll Panel has elected Corrigin-based woolgrower Steven Bolt as its chairman.
Australian wool is set to gain popularity from the high seas as the Woolmark sponsored Italian yacht wins the Prada Cup challenger series.
Nominations are open for the Australian Wool Industry Medal to recognise those who have made an exceptional contribution to the national industry.
Concern about the lack of shearers to fill the shoes of the shearing “guns” has led to a Dalyup farming family’s shearing shed becoming a school to encourage development of skills in a new generation.
Dorothy Henderson
Movements in the Australian wool marketwere uneven last week, with Merino wool prices mostly easing in the eastern selling centres, but lifting in Fremantle.
Two WA woolgrowers were selected as WoolPoll panel members last Thursday to form a group of eight people from across Australia to run the 2021 levy vote.
Woollen garments have the least environmental impact in their wearable stage, a new study has found.
A New Zealand shearer has smashed the women’s world record for the number of lambs shorn in nine hours, notching up 661 and inspiring female shearers worldwide.
Cally Dupe
China’s decision to lift its quota for wool imports by 5 per cent — or more than 15,000 bales — could be the first hint the Asian superpower may be prepared to repair ties.
Cally Dupe and Bob Garnant
Legendary shearer Kevin Gellatly has been awarded the industry’s greatest accolade — the Australian Wool Industry Medal — on Saturday.
A WA youngster has started an alpaca shearing business on home soil after travelling the world and shearing the unusual creatures.
Just days before Christmas, Scaddan Merino breeder David Vandenberghe was more than 550km from home keeping watch over a portion of his family’s flock on agistment at Bannister.
China has reportedly increased its import quota for Australian wool this year, despite the ongoing trade war between the two countries leading to sanctions on a suite of local products.
Jenne Brammer
The third wool production forecast for the 2020-21 season has WA lagging behind, but overall Australia’s volume to lift.
A UK company has created a fully-traceable line of shirts made of Australian Merino wool.
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